Job scam: Dismissed railway official, son booked

Khadak police on Thursday booked Manuel Peter Sansare, a dismissed employee of the Central Railway, Pune, and his son Anthony for allegedly duping around 40 youths of over Rs 60 lakh in a job scam.

| TNN | Jul 19, 2014, 01.34 AM IST

PUNE: Khadak police on Thursday booked Manuel Peter Sansare, a dismissed employee of the Central Railway, Pune, and his son Anthony for allegedly duping around 40 youths of over Rs 60 lakh in a job scam. Police have launched a search to trace the suspects.

Since September 2013, the duo had allegedly been demanding money from people on the pretext of offering them jobs in the Indian Railways. The scam came to light after a vada pav vendor, Kunal Palkar from Raviwar Peth, registered a case against them under sections 420 (cheating) read with 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.

Sansare had been arrested a few months ago, along with a female accomplice, in a similar case. They were released on bail and a chargesheet was filed against them in court recently.

In the instant case, the Sansares had allegedly demanded Rs 4.5 lakh each from Palkar and his friends 'Shrikant Khunare and Tushar Kachare' after promising them the posts of deputy manager, depot, and train ticket examiners, police inspector (crime) Sunil Dorge of the Khadak police station said.

Dorge told TOI that Sansare had made the youths pay an advance of Rs 2.5 lakh each by saying that he had connections in the railways.

Palkar and his friends made cash payments to Sansare at a hotel on Bajirao Road, where the suspects collected photo copies of their documents and promised to conduct their medical examinations. They

asked the youths to keep the balance money ready as they would receive job offers in three months.

"When no job offers came their way, the youths realised that they had been cheated. We have recorded the statements of Palkar and six others who were duped of Rs 7.5 lakh. We are in the process of recording the statements of more youths," Dorge said.

He said that, as a scare tactic, Sansare would lodge false complaints against the youths at the Yerawada police station, police commissionerate and the human rights commission, when they demanded their money back.

Palkar's brother, Ashish, told TOI that Palkar had met Sansare's son, Anthony, through a friend. Anthony had told them he was an I-T officer, but was not on the job as he was preparing for the civil services exam. They met Sansare, who promised them jobs and asked them for money. He refused to accept payment through cheques and said he would only take cash. Ashish said that his brother took loans from friends and even mortgaged jewellery to cough up money for the promised job.

Palkar, in his statement to the police, said that he and the others met Sansare near Alankar talkies in February to ask for their money. He said that Sansare recorded on a stamp paper that he would repay them if he failed to offer jobs by March 9. Sansare told them he had collected money from 40 youths from Pune, Satara and Sangli and said he was going to Mumbai to collect the offer letters.

"We found out that he was a cheat after we searched his name on the internet. He avoided us and switched off his cellphone. We registered a complaint," Palkar said.

Sanjay Patil, senior inspector of the Yerawada police station, told TOI that around three months ago, Sansare had alerted the city police control room saying that some youths had beaten him up at his residence in Kharadi. "Police took the youths into custody, but found that they were innocent. A youth from Baramati lodged a complaint against him and a woman and we arrested them."

He further said that Sansare had filed a plea against two railway officials, but investigations revealed that one of the officials had instituted an inquiry against him. Two years ago, the railway authorities had removed Sansare from the post of train ticket examiner.

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